MORAL PHILOSOPHYETHICS

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MORAL PHILOSOPHY/ETHICS

• Determining right from wrong

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• S1 Some of Hitlers actions indirectly caused
  the deaths of millions of people.
• S2 Some of Hitlers actions were morally wrong.
• Moral Principle Action that causes the deaths of
  millions of people is wrong.

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This Box Represents All Possible Actions
Morally Neutral Actions
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• Moral Objectivism There are moral facts about
  what is right and wrongthese facts do not depend
  on what anyone or any group of people think.
  They are black and white facts that are
  independent.
• Moral Subjectivism (Relativism) This is the
  belief that what is right and wrong varies
  depending on the individual or the culture in
  which an individual lives.

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• Moral Philosophy/Ethics Chart
• MORAL SUBJECTIVISM
• Individual Moral Subjectivism
• Cultural Moral Subjectivism (Plato Might
  Makes Right)
• Moral Nihilism
• MORAL OBJECTIVISM
• gtCONSEQUENTIALISM
• Act Utilitarianism
• Moral Egoism/Machiavellian Ethics
• gtNON-CONSEQUENTIALISM
• Kants Ethical Theory
• Natural Law Theory (theistic and
  non- theistic)
• Divine Command Theory

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Act Utilitarianism Formula

• 1. Figure out all possible actions
• 2. Gauge each actions potential for happiness
  and freedom from pain for the most people
  involved
• Choose the action with the greatest utility